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Comment by Tehbantha

Here dense forests surround a vast arctic wasteland littered with the massive, gleaming bones of perished dragons. In the center of this frozen expanse lies Wyrmrest Temple, a structure believed to be built by the world-shaping titans shortly after Azeroth's creation. Many legends hold that the five great Dragon Aspects were blessed within this fortress and given their charge to watch over the budding world. Perhaps it is for this reason that dragons nearing the end of their lives come to the Dragonblight to enrich the land with their passing.

Comment by Gbasp05

With all these maps i made a really ugly beta map of the beginning of northrend

Comment by AlexDevillord

OMG i can't trust to my eyes this zone has a NAXXRAMAS xD

Comment by LKolmir

No there is not. Blizzard has stated that Naxxaramas is moving from the Eastern Plaguelands to Northrend. The original level 60 raid will be removed with the expansion or maybe as part of the world events that will come with the 3.0 patch prior to the actual expansion.

Comment by theiviaxx

whoever painted these maps is bad ass!

Comment by Oblivion537

tier 7 is going to be recolored tier 3

Comment by Kalixs

They moved Nax from WPL to dragon blight?

Comment by dnflc

Yes, they did moved Naxxramas, the Dragonblight has a very good looking sky, like the boreal aurora, first time I entered nagrand I stared at the sky for half an hour, now I'll probably stare at the sky for 1 hour.

Comment by Murderface

Home of the newly improved Naxxaramas and Azjol-Nerub, the underground city of the spider people!

Very creative place and wonderful scenery.

Comment by Naimad

The Great Dragonblight is a graveyard of Dragons, located in Northrend. The entrance to the Nerubian kingdom of Azjol-Nerub can be found in the west, while the mysterious Wyrmrest Temple resides in the south. The Magnataur village of Bloodmar lies here also, as well as the ruined Taunka capital of Icemist Village, and the nerubian conclave of Sundered Monolith.

The bones are zealously guarded by Malygos and his Blue Dragonflight, but the rise of the Lich King and the Scourge allowed the undead to claim many sets of bones from the graveyard and use them to create Frost Wyrms for the Scourge forces. The Dragonblight was also the home of the first humans to fall victim to the plague.

Comment by Morrowlol

Players on the Beta have been complaining of headaches and nausea from questing in the Dragonblight for long amounts of time, this is apparently due to the snow being such a bright shade of white that it hurts the eyes, also the whole downhill layout of the zone that stretches really far into the distance apparently gives some people vertigo.

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Comment by gnidleif

Is it possible to go from level 70 straight to here and pick up quests? Because Wowhead states that it's from 71-74 which means that a wellgeared level 70 probably could go here instead of Howling Fjord or Borean Tundra, and won't have to fight over the mobs with the rest of the server.

I'm asking because maybe all quests have level req. 71 or maybe you need rep with the previous zones to get quests or whatever.

Comment by Atuan

Good question! Since I have a working brain, I decided to find this out without asking someone or playing the beta. You see, under the quest tab, there is an entire list of quests for the zone! Most being 71+.

Comment by fsngnshiekfan

Apperantly at 77.3, 51.4 you can pick up the quest "Maggot Eye" look under Horde quests on the map

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Comment by Joh86

As a lore-lover, this will be your new favorite area. It's packed with cutscenes, flashbacks, references, etc. :D

Comment by Zuluhn

Stop telling about the zones.. go get a life instead of wasting time writing shiit nobody cares about!

Comment by Makkha

Your lookin on WoWhead... Get a life yourself.

Comment by SputnikDX

On my server, the bottom floor of Wyrmrest Temple seems to be a hot spot for PvP. There are guards, but if you stay in the center they don't bother you much. When you die, you don't become a ghost, you just rez right in the center of the "arena". It's very nice, and allows for some frantic pvp action.

Comment by Khaaan

The Dragonblight is a zone that every player really should quest through, as it deals heavily in WC3 lore as well as new content. The culmination of the zone at the Wrathgate includes a heart-rending (or heart-cleaving, if you prefer) cinematic scene followed by an epic battle elsewhere in the world that is definitely worth taking part in.

Comment by Nihile

Drugs are bad, m'kay?

Comment by Joh86

@Eminence: A cutscene does not necessarily have to mean an encoded movie, nor does it have to mean you cannot move your character.

Comment by hooji

You see, we got kids trying to find new ways to get high, like huffin paint, or drinking cough syrup, but they're all just bad, m'kay?

Comment by FallenCorpse

hello how could i reach northrend with an alliance character?

thanks for answering

Comment by Abzinthe

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Comment by Cythereal

Dragonblight seems to be the new Barrens of Northrend-players will usually come here after finishing Borean Tundra/Howling Fjord, and there's plenty to see and do in the zone, including the Wrath Gate sequence. Expect to see plenty of players here, and if you're on a PvP server, be ready for lots of fighting.

Also, if you're Horde, be wary when quests take you to the Carrion Fields-Alliance npc's, especially in steam tanks, will attack you without mercy, complicating the high mob density of the area.

Comment by Generaldraxus

There is a flightmaster at Wyrmrest Temple which can be kind of hard to find. He is at the northern part of the temple, on the ground level.

Comment by Joodass

ok after a painstaking search for those last 3/4 quests I'd like to tell you about a few more quests I found.

NPC = Zort - Location = 59,18He starts a small quest chain which, after the first completion, opens up a line from the giant next to him. The lil dude is located just slightly inside a Chasm.

Down the road from him is a little camp with 3 Goblins in that also has 3 quests.Camp = Nozzlerust PostNPC = Zivlix, Xink and Narf.

Hope this helps.

Comment by Darkevilguy

It is interesting to note that the zone map of Dragonblight looks almost exactly like Washington State.

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Comment by holczhammer

(after version 3.0.8)

Tailors who want to make Ebonweave may be interested in that Maw of Neltharion can be found at 36.9, 31.6.

Comment by DRBlanton

I did every single quest here except 1 (need to find one more for the acheivement, and I can't find anymore) in 2 days and I was perfectly ok.That is interesting though. One of my favorite things of Northrend is all the snow, it just rules. The cold atmosphere really. I guess coming from central california with the bad summers really has messed up my perception, lol.

Comment by klicken

Anyone have any info on the huge dragon laying dead on the sea floor at the bottom of the zone? I have never seen a dragon that big before, the skeleton can even be seen on the World Map.

Comment by Baalar

The dragon is Galakrond, said to be the progenitor of the 5 dragon aspects and the largest dragon to ever live, so huge in fact that his size is greater than that of the five leaders of the flights combined. The Scourge are apparently trying desperately to ressurect him as a Frost Wrym, all I have to that is good god I hope not, it'll tear us apart :P On the plus side, it would be cool if the 3 aspects that have non-psychotic leaders teamed up to fight him, with Malygos and even Neltharion turning up to fight in the end.

EDIT: To the person below me, who says that the dragon at the south of Dragonblight is larger, if you look, it's length is about equivalent to Galakronds Rest, and that encompasses the dragons head and full spine, minus the tail. Galakrond's Rest exposes only his head and part of his neck. The rest is still buried beneath the snow.

Comment by Earthforce

Drugs are bad mkay, you shouldn't do them, cause if you do them your bad. Because drugs are bad mkay?

Comment by Lmjkdd6

Why are the Dalaran achievements listed under Dragonblight? Isn't it in Crystalsong Forest?

Comment by Azsharae

I've found this zone the best questing zone so far. Lots of tanks, dragon riding, and of course the Wrath Gate chain, which is absolute overkill with the epic battle of Undercity ( though that particular battle could have been quite not so long ).

Spent lot of time here, which might cause me to skip some content of Grizzly Hills, as Zul'Drak looks like more fun.

Comment by Serfiden

Personally I hated this zone because I found just Horde questgivers on a PvP realm, so I killed them...Of course, there are Alliance questgivers, but also I played on a private server, so killing the guards and the general of Amgar's Hammer was pretty useful with my 72 Mage:D Today I want to do Naxx because I need some wands, and a good Off-Hand Frill

Comment by Kanasio

whats with all of the stamina on the quest rewards?

Comment by Pumpkindoom

I keep getting an odd glitch while I'm in Venomspite, my minion and I will start to take damage and get dazed debuffs like an enemy is attacking, but my demon won't automatically attack anything and AOE spells weren't damaging anything around me that could be the cause. I'm also show to be in combat and can't mount up, though it does go away if I run far enough, but I've had to glitch ghost follow me all the way to the gates of New Hearthglen. I've talked with other players in the zone and they said the same thing happens to them, I'm not quite sure how long this has been going on or if they're fixing it today with the patch.

Comment by Wiliusas

2 Blacksmithing trainers for the Horde, and none for the Alliance...Anyway, it's the lowest level teritory where you can find saronite to mine, but the deposits are on the top of the cliffs in the south-eastern corner of Dragonblight, around Icemist village. Does anyone know how to get to them? Is that possible only with a fly mount?

Comment by cryprkeeper5

If you need to think or just relax i recomend that you get to the ruby dragonshire. The music is very calming and the tree with all leaves and the flowers are beutifull.

To bad the scourge are there

Comment by aganlon

Dragonblight is differnetly one of the greatest places to level in Northrend due to the lore and the quests. I mean Shredders, Dragons and a movie? How cool does it get!

Comment by Banjo

You only get 1 quest leading to this Zone as alliance, and that's the one leading to star's rest.

Comment by TheR0nin

The quests around Wintergard Keep are awesome, but there's one problem to be aware of. Many of them don't provide a clear way to get from the Keep to wherever you need to go. They just leave you assuming (or even tell you) that you have to go through the undead-occupied portions of town.

However, for quests that don't actually occur in the town, there are paths in the cliffs and hills to the North (and then Northeast), and to the South, of the Keep itself that will often allow you to avoid fighting your way through all of the undead. So it's worth exploring for these, as they aren't really mentioned and, since you flew into the Keep to begin with, you have no real idea how to move around.

Taking the road south out of the Undead occupied town towards the "Forgotten Shore" is especially a bad idea-- you'll cross a bridge and suddenly be mobbed by countless numbers of undead mobs. You're not making it through that way alive.

Instead, go past the east side of the Inn in the Keep, and find a trail south through "Vengeance Pass" in the hills there. Once you make it to the main road, follow it East, and you'll bypass the town all together.

(Edited for additional detail.)

Comment by Ranzora

You Sir, are wrong. The Queen of the Dragons, Alexstrasza the Life-Binder says it in the quest Audience With The Dragon Queen (http://www.wowhead.com/quest=12496#comments) right before you complete the quest she says "North of here are the dying ground of Galakrond - the progenitor of dragonkind. It is from Galakrond that the Titans created the Aspects. Imagine, then, the power of Galakrond. His size alone was greater than all the Aspects combined!"

I do believe that Baalar and EiriasDrood are correct.

Comment by darkfist672

can you say new blue Aspect

Comment by uncharted6

Man i hate dragonblight

Comment by Merradin

Comment by V1100tor

If anyone is having trouble finding Wyrmrest Temple flightmaster, as I did (even after adding the icon on my minimap) the NPC's name is Nethestrasz and is located at (60,51) ground level on Wyrmrest Temple

Comment by miemie

If you are a newcomer at Wintergarde Keep and looking for trash clearing, don't commit the same mistake I did flying all around the vicinity trying to find some vendor. The nearest I found was at Wyrmrest Temple.

At Wintergarde Keep, one needs to first complete the quest 'Flight of the Wintergarde Defender' before the spot itself is populated with inn keeper, vendor, etc.

Comment by Nukillis

So I found a weird glitch earlier today while exploring in Dragonblight on my DK.

I found that if you go to the Crusader's Landing (next to the Scarlet Onslaught area), and you go onto the boat that is docked there, you will be "zoned" into Uldum... specifically, Schnottz's Landing. The mobs on the boat there are counted as being in Uldum as well for this reason (Onslaught Deckhand). This probably occurred because the boat might have had a name of its own, and it being in Crusader's Landing changed it to Schnottz's Landing due to the closeness of names.

You are able to talk in General chat and Local Defense in Uldum on this boat, and it lists your character under /who and the guild roster as being in Uldum.

This of course being in 4.2.

Comment by jtmaster9

I am sorry to announce but the dragon in the water is not larger than galkrond, because although galkrond is not fully unearthed he is still almost as large he is though larger than deathwing but as for galkrond not even his whole rib cage or wings are unearthed and like half of his ribcage takes up a fully zoomed out minimap (death wing takes up a whole one) the one in the water goes to the bottom of his ribcage and plus galkrond has a short torso being a proto and he is still larger

Comment by Valairena

The Surge Needle and Western Moonrest Gardens, courtesy of End Time.

Comment by Jamalo

After Patch 4.3 Dragonblight seems to have been seriously re-visited with one of the new Hour of Twilight dungeons based in the dragon shrines (however they have dramatically changed) and the other dungeon is in Dragonblight too. Finally the Dragon Soul raid is also set here.So if you liked this zone in WoTLK then you will love being back here.

Comment by radicarl

What's the deal with the incomplete map on this page?

Comment by Mullygrubb

The tallest tower in Wintergarde Keep 77.48, has a hole in the floor of its crows nest...

Seemed relevant..

Comment by Goodwinn

The MapID of Dragonblight is 488. This is used for any WoW API function that requires a MapID.

For example, to set your current map to Dragonblight you can type:

/run SetMapByID(488)

Comment by Goodwinn

Don't forget to pick up these "This Item Begins A Quest" items while in Dragonblight...

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Comment by Kraaku

Leveling in Dragonblight as a frost mage is not recommended. Mobs using frost-reflection, mobs immune to frost damage. Be prepared to spam frostfire bolts and cross fingers for surviving, or dualspec before going here

Dragonblight

Dragonblight is a level 72-75 quest hub in central Northrend. It makes a reappearance in Cataclysm as the backdrop for Dragon Soul and Hour of Twilight in patch 4.3. It is an icy valley, covered with the bodies of dead dragons. Players learn about two major plotlines here: the dragonflights at Wyrmrest Temple, and the Wrathgate plot, which has very different stories for Alliance and Horde.